Marshawn Lynch placed on Seahawks’ reserve/retired list

The Seattle Seahawks officially placed their former Pro Bowl running back on the reserve/retired list.

Beast Mode has finally come to an end in Seattle.

The Seattle Seahawks announced Thursday that they placed running back Marshawn Lynch on the reserve/retired list after a nine-year NFL career that featured five Pro Bowl appearances, one Lombardi Trophy and one famous Earth-shaking run.

Lynch announced his retirement on Feb.7 in typical Lynch fasion, posting a tweet during Super Bowl 50 between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers.

Since then, Lynch has been spotted riding camels and trolling kids in pickup basketball games, but there had been no word on when Lynch would officially retire. Seahawks general manager John Schneider said earlier this week that the team planned to place Lynch on the reserve/retired list by June 1.

The move officially removes Lynch from the Seahawks’ roster and brings to a close one of the more unique careers in recent NFL memory.

Seattle acquired Lynch in a trade with the Buffalo Bills on Oct. 5, 2010. The deal cost Seattle a fourth-round pick in 2011 and fifth-round pick in 2012. Advantage, Seattle.

Lynch made an immediate impact on the Seahawks in the first year of the Schneider-Pete Carroll regime. Lynch helped solidify a struggling running game, and the Seahawks improbably went on to win the NFC West with a 7-9 record.

In the 2010 wild-card round, the Seahawks upset the defending champion New Orleans Saints in a 41-36 shootout, thanks largely to Lynch’s run that is now known as the “Beast Quake.”

Lynch leaves professional football ranked 36th in rushing yards (9,112) and 24th in rushing touchdowns (74), totals that likely won’t earn him enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But the grill-wearing, Skittles-eating, media-shuning enigma that was Lynch won’t soon be forgotten.

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